Wearing the Maidens set will provide the same percentage increase to your defence(not absorption) as wearing full Havel's so it doesn't matter whether you're going for a light or heavy build - always have at least some armour.Įach piece of armour (head, legs ect.) provides a different amount. This reduces the damage taken by a huge amount so you should always have a piece of armour in every slot regardless of what it is. Say we have a character with 84 physical defence when wearing no armour, with full armour you would have 146 which is roughly a 75% increase. Now, your defences are governed by your stats but defences also gain a percentage increase by just wearing armour. Absorption can only be obtained through equipment, armour, weapons and rings can all provide absorption. The important piece of information to take away from defence is that it penalises small amounts of damage very heavily.Ībsorption is a percentage reduction to any incoming damage type and it's applied after the incoming damage has been reduced by defence. There are two parts to what I'll call damage reduction, there's absorption and defence.ĭefence as shown above is quite complicated, it's not a flat reduction or a percentage decrease to damage, just think of it as another way to reduce damage. So before we talk about a weapon's damage we need to understand how damage is reduced.

**Second note: the reddit post from which this information is sourced from will also be linked. *Note: this is not made by me this is from a video by Limit Breakers a link to which can be found in the links section of the guide and it provides some additional info for those who are interested + the channel produces some great content so I'd recommend checking it out regardless. Now you'd think that damage would be a pretty simple concept not requiring its own topic, well I've got some bad news for you.

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